Pop quiz: what do all of these people have in common?

[ciroccoj]

Also: at which name did you figure it out?

1. Marcus Cicero, 106 B.C-43 B.C., Roman
   
2. Marcus Quintillian, 35-100, Roman
   
3. St. Thomas More, 1478-1535, English
   
4. Sir Francis Bacon, 1561-1626, English
   
5. Gottfried Leibniz, 1646-1716, German
   
6. Sir William Blackstone, 1723-1780, English
   
7. John Adams, 1735-1826, American
   
8. Thomas Jefferson, 1743-1826, American
   
9. Johann W. Goethe, 1749-1832, German
   
10. Andrew Jackson, 1767-1845, American
    
11. Daniel Webster, 1782-1852, American
    
12. Simon Bolivar, 1783-1820, Venezuelan
    
13. Thomas C. Haliburton, 1796-1865, Canadian
    
14. Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1865, American
    
15. Sir John A. Macdonald, 1815-1891, Canadian
    
16. Sir Wilfrid Laurier, 1841-1919, Canadian
    
17. Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1841-1935, American
    
18. Robert Louis Stevenson, 1850-1894, English
    
19. Leon Bourgeois, 1851-1925, French (Nobel Peace Prize)
    
20. Woodrow Wilson, 1856-1924, American
    
21. Frank Kellogg, 1856-1937, American (Nobel Peace Prize)
    
22. Clarence Darrow, 1857-1938, American
    
23. Lloyd George, 1863-1945, English
    
24. Mohandas Gandhi, 1869-1948, Indian
    
25. Vladimir Lenin, 1870-1924, Russian
    
26. Benjamin Cardozo, 1870-1938, American
    
27. Roscoe Pound, 1870-1964, American
    
28. Franz Kafka, 1883-1935, German
    
29. Clement Attlee, 1883-1967, English
    
30. Erle Stanley Gardner, 1889-1970, American
    
31. Earl Warren, 1891-1874, American
    
32. Samuel Leibowitz, 1893-1973, American
    
33. John Diefenbaker, 1895-1979, Canadian
    
34. Lord Denning, 1899-1999, English
    
35. Morley Callaghan, 1903-1990, Canadian
    
36. Melvin Belli, 1907-1996, American
    
37. Thurgood Marshall, 1908-1993, American
    
38. Bora Laskin, 1912-1984, Canadian
    
39. Menachem Begin, 1913-1992, Israel (Nobel Peace Prize)
    
40. Nelson Mandela, 1918-, South African
    
41. William Kunstler, 1919-1995, American
    
42. Pierre Elliott Trudeau, 1919-2000, Canadian
    
43. Bella Abzug, 1920-1998, American
    
44. Learned Hand, 1924-1961, American
    
45. Margaret Thatcher, 1925-, British
    
46. Robert Kennedy, 1925-1968, American
    
47. Fidel Castro, 1926-, Cuban
    
48. Sandra Day O'Connor, 1930, American
    
49. Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 1933-, American
    
50. Paul Martin, 1934-, Canadian
    
51. Geraldine Ferraro, 1935-, American
    
52. Elizabeth Dole, 1936-, American
    
53. Johnnie Cochran, 1937-2005, American
    
54. Jean Chretien, 1938, Canadian
    
55. Janet Reno, 1938-, American
    
56. Joseph Biden, 1942-, American
    
57. Hilary Clinton, 1947-, American
    
58. Kim Campbell, 1947-, Canadian
    
59. Elizabeth Edwards, 1949-2010, American
    
60. Marcia Clark, 1953-, American
    
61. Sonya Sotomayor, 1954-, American
    
62. Anita Hill, 1956-, American
    
63. Caroline Kennedy, 1957-, American
    
64. Barack Obama, 1961-, American
    
65. Michelle Obama, 1964-, American

Comments

[bast2.livejournal.com]

Technically, Kafka wasn't a lawyer.

[ciroccoj.livejournal.com]

He was on a list of "100 Lawyers Who Changed the World", which I did not make up. And after researching in that fount of all accurate wisdom (Wikipedia), I see that he did one obligatory year as law clerk. Which, yeah, maybe technically that may be considered lawyering, but it's definitely reaching ;)